# I'd like the meet the person who came up with the "24-hour Christmas music" format... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 1, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740 "2011-12-01T20:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/1 "2011-12-01T20:21:19Z")
…to punch him in the face. Or her, I’m equal-opportunity near-homocidal. I walk into a store to buy one marker, and my sanity is frayed to the edges by the time I leave. And then, of course, you get “Dreaming of a White Christmas” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” stuck in your head for the next few weeks on end. Wham. Bam. Smack. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/2 "2011-12-01T20:43:52Z")
Xmas music is only one of many reasons why I don’t shop between Black Friday and January 2, except for perishable necessities. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/3 "2011-12-01T21:25:14Z")
It was a necessity. I really needed that color and the marker I was using had run dry. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/4 "2011-12-01T21:32:00Z")
My favorite local [radio station](http://www.charliefm.com/) changed over to 24 hour Christmas music almost two Fridays ago, November 18th. There’s only about four that are any good to begin with. It’s like replacing the Ace on your pitching staff with Santa Claus. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/5 "2011-12-01T21:36:41Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > …to punch him in the face. I’d like to take him out back in the alley with my Louisville Slugger. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/6 "2011-12-01T21:51:19Z")
I’m a weirdo… I load a bunch of Christmas music onto my iPod every November. I set a pre-set button in my car to the “Christmas Light” station. I hum along in the stores. I’m usually a grump, so I can’t really explain it; but something about Christmas music just makes me happy, and when the weather is starting to turn shitty like it’s going to in a couple days, that definitely counts for something. So, be annoyed if you must, but I do not endorse your rant. Have a Holly Jolly Christmas! ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/7 "2011-12-01T21:54:07Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > It was a necessity. I really needed that color and the marker I was using had run dry. I’ll accept that you needed it. I’m just saying, I try to avoid shopping during this month. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/8 "2011-12-01T22:00:22Z")
I like christmas music… but unfortunately I am working offshore this entire december so I won’t be hearing any. Sorry you have to suffer through it! ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/9 "2011-12-01T22:18:59Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > And then, of course, you get “Dreaming of a White Christmas” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” stuck in your head for the next few weeks on end. I can fix that for you. ♪[Si-i-imply ha-a-aving a wonderful christmas time!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGAqz4dLHuw)♫ No need to thank me. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/10 "2011-12-01T22:47:01Z")
You know, I like (some) Christmas music too. But I really think it’s best to confine it to the Christmas season, which DOES NOT BEGIN IN NOVEMBER. If Christmas music (and all that other Christmas stuff) started on, say, December 15, it’d be great. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/11 "2011-12-01T22:59:32Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > It was a necessity. I really needed that color and the marker I was using had run dry. Yeah, well at least while you were in the store you could have been holding your hands over your ears and yelling “Aargh! Make it stop! Make it stop!” ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/12 "2011-12-01T23:03:38Z")
They do it for me. In my car I switch between the two Holiday channels on XM radio and my local FM station that’s playing all Christmas music. My iTunes is loaded with Christmas music when I’m at my computer. But not until the day after Thanksgiving. I’m not a monster. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/13 "2011-12-01T23:21:56Z")
Basically I like Christmas music, in small doses and at the appropriate time of the year. I don’t mind it playing continuously on Dec. 24th and 25th. Two days only. I like Sinatra but I don’t want to hear him, or anybody else, 24 hrs a day for a month. So . . . I feel very sorry for the millions of people that work in retail and have to listen to Christmas music during their entire shift for over a month. They should get combat pay. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/14 "2011-12-01T23:28:54Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > …to punch him in the face. Or her, I’m equal-opportunity near-homocidal. I walk into a store to buy one marker, and my sanity is frayed to the edges by the time I leave. And then, of course, you get “Dreaming of a White Christmas” and “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” stuck in your head for the next few weeks on end. > > Wham. > > Bam. > > Smack. [Evil!Skald] I’m certain I can help you with this project, but I’ll need you to deliver a package to Michelle Bachmann in exchange. Don’t worry, it’s not a bomb or anything; just a charm to quadruple her mojo and make sure she sweeps all the caucuses & primaries, not to mention the general election. Say we have a deal, and I’ll arrange the meet. [/evil!skald] ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/15 "2011-12-01T23:40:06Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > I like christmas music… but unfortunately I am working offshore this entire december so I won’t be hearing any. Sorry you have to suffer through it! I hate you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/16 "2011-12-01T23:43:08Z")
I’ve gotten used to ignoring the background music. I cannot ignore those sound/motion activated singing fish/raindeer/snowmen, whatevers. I used to walk into a store, have them all go off on me and then walk back out. Finally, I realized that I hate shopping anyhow, so leaving won’t do anything but send me to another store that probably has them. Now I shut them off. Anytime something starts singing to me when I’m close, I just shut the dang thing off. I’ll spend the time to shut off all of the ones by the cashiers. I’m a customer, I am only there for a few minutes. The poor cashiers have to listen to them their entire shift. They aren’t allowed to shut them off, but customers can. Follow my lead and shut them off. It will only take a few minutes of your time, but you will make other people very happy. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/17 "2011-12-02T01:53:58Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Follow my lead and shut them off. It will only take a few minutes of your time, but you will make other people very happy. So…do I do that with a firearm, a baseball bat, an axe, what? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/18 "2011-12-02T01:54:13Z")
I love Christmas music, but I hate the crap they play because nobody wants to play religious stuff so it’s “Silver Bells” all up in here and god do I get sick of it. I was at a creepily Jesused dentist’s office yesterday waiting for my fiance to get his teeth pulled and while the Word of God was all over the damned place, including the bathroom, at least I heard some of my favorite carols. “In Dulce Jubilo”, even! ---
**Author:** ![flatlined](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb9ed0/32.png) [@flatlined](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flatlined)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/19 "2011-12-02T02:39:55Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > So…do I do that with a firearm, a baseball bat, an axe, what? Where is the all of the above option! Bonus points happen if you pull the batteries out and give them to the cashier. A manager would feel obligated to put them back into those obnoxious things and turn them back on, the cashier will thank you, tuck them away somewhere and try to find coupons or other ways to show his/her appreciation. Hugs and gushing praise might happen as well 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740/20 "2011-12-02T03:28:50Z")
> [@flatlined](#): > > Where is the all of the above option! > > Bonus points happen if you pull the batteries out and give them to the cashier. A manager would feel obligated to put them back into those obnoxious things and turn them back on, the cashier will thank you, tuck them away somewhere and try to find coupons or other ways to show his/her appreciation. Hugs and gushing praise might happen as well 🙂 If you are going to be that way about it, take the batteries out and put them in backwards. That will stop them for restarting for a bit. Most managers I’ve known would put fresh batteries in backwards. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-like-the-meet-the-person-who-came-up-with-the-24-hour-christmas-music-format/604740.md?page=2)